Matthew Ghazarian

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Area and Cultural Studies, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Famine in a Time of Uncertainty: Food Aid and Sectarianism in Turkey, 1856-1893

Nathaniel George

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Rice University

Proposal Title: A Third World War: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Empire in Lebanon, 1967–1990

Elizabeth Geglia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, American University

Proposal Title: Disrupting Democracy? An Ethnography of Governance, Territoriality, and Dispossession in Honduras’s Emerging ‘Model Cities’

Ann Gaul

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

Proposal Title: Kitchen Affects: Culinary Spaces in Colonial North Africa, 1919-1964

Joshua Freeman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University

Proposal Title: Print Communism: Uyghur Literary Canon between China and the USSR

William Fitzsimons

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Northwestern University

Proposal Title: Distributed Power: A Mobile Politics of Age without Centers in East Africa, ca. 1300 to Recent Times

Jean Faye

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy, University of Oregon

Proposal Title: Farming and Meaning at the Desert’s Edge: Can Serer (Senegal) Indigenous Agricultural and Cultural Systems Co-Evolve towards Sustainability?

Anthony Dest

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Latin American Studies, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Without Consent: The Politics and Conditions of Interethnic Solidarity in Colombia

Oliver Cussen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Experiments in Empire: The Global Civil Society of Old Regime France

Sandy Chang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Across the Nanyang: Intimate Labor and Chinese Female Migration in British Asia, 1890-1939

Andrea Castonguay

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Notre Dame

Proposal Title: Keeping the Faith: Maliki Fuqaha, the Almoravid Dynasty, and the Sunnization of North Africa c. 1000 -1150 CE

Russell Burge

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Stanford University

Proposal Title: Civilian Battleground: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979

Morgan Buck

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Environmental Science, City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center

Proposal Title: Domesticated Landscapes: Public Housing and the Cultural Politics of Domesticity in Johannesburg, 1930–1994

Tory Brykalski

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of California / Davis

Proposal Title: Cultivating Life: Agricultural Labor in Lebanon's Syrian Refugee Crisis

Katherine Bruhn

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Southeast Asian Studies, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: From Sanggar to Ekonomi Kreatif: West Sumatran Artists in Indonesia’s Reinvented Art World

Alyssa Bowen

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Proposal Title: From Political Solidarity to Human Rights: The Transformation of Pinochet’s Opposition in Europe, 1973-1998

Svetlana Borodina

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Rice University

Proposal Title: Governing Productive (Dis)Abilities: the Inkluzivnyi Work Regime and Moral Citizenship in Russia

Brian Bond

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology/Music, City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center

Proposal Title: Singing Islam: Sufi Poetry Performance as Ethical Pedagogy in Western India

Secil Binboga

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, University of Michigan

Proposal Title: Unsettled Geographies: Cold War Politics of “Space-Making” and “Scale-Making” in Turkey

Chantal Berman

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, Princeton University

Proposal Title: Bread, Freedom: Protest, Social Policy, and Political Regimes After the Arab Spring

Nandita Badami

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of California / Irvine

Proposal Title: Cultures of the Sun: The Politics of Solar Energy in India

Ali Atabey

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of Arizona

Proposal Title: Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Europeans in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Galata

Ghazal Asif

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Proposal Title: Papering the Divide: Religious Difference, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Pakistan

Quincy Amoah

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Princeton University

Proposal Title: Phenomenology of Divination and Ethical Action in Karamoja

Ryoko Yamamoto

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY) / Old Westbury

Proposal Title: Global Talents on the Local Job Markets: Academic Globalization and Post-Graduation Decision-Makings among International Students in Japan and the United States